Hidden Hand primary-source snapshot
Fetched: 2026-05-07 UTC
1) Overview
Source: https://learn.hiddenhand.finance/
Selected excerpts from the official docs:
Hidden Hand by Dinero is a marketplace for governance incentives, commonly referred to as “bribes.”
Hidden Hand allows third party protocols to enable more efficient governance processes and engage their voters by offering additional rewards for governance activities, allowing users to earn more overall rewards.
Additional signals from the source:
- Hidden Hand explicitly presents itself as infrastructure for governance incentives rather than as a general DeFi rewards product.
- The docs frame the platform as a two-sided market between outside protocols and governance participants.
2) Mechanics
Source: https://learn.hiddenhand.finance/mechanics
Selected excerpts from the official docs:
Users lock their relevant governance token in their protocols’ token system and delegate it to Hidden Hand to get bribed for their vote.
External protocol looking for rewards or votes on their token bribes the relevant pool on Hidden Hand.
Hidden Hand will auto-select the vote distribution that yields the highest bribe value.
Bribe reward goes back to users who locked their tokens to vote.
Additional signals from the source:
- This page makes the core mechanism explicit: pooled delegated governance power is routed according to bribe optimization logic.
- The docs also note that a 4% fee is taken by the protocol and split evenly between Dinero-aligned recipients and treasury, showing that the marketplace itself captures rent from governance trading activity.
3) Delegating to Hidden Hand
Source: https://learn.hiddenhand.finance/delegating-to-hidden-hand
Selected excerpts from the official docs:
Users can delegate their tokens’ voting power to Hidden Hand.
users entrust Hidden Hand to pool all votes and utilize an algorithm to identify the execute a voting strategy which would result in the most token rewards.
The end goal of this delegation process is to maximize each user’s dollar per vote ratio.
Even after delegating to Hidden Hand, you retain the ability to vote manually on specific proposals.
Additional signals from the source:
- Delegation is durable but not absolute; manual override remains possible on specific proposals.
- Hidden Hand is not just posting incentives. It is running an explicit optimization layer over delegated governance power.
4) Fee Structure
Source: https://learn.hiddenhand.finance/fee-structure
Selected excerpts from the official docs:
There are no fees charged to users for interacting with Hidden Hand. Instead, Hidden Hand charges a 4% fee on all bribes added to the protocol.
The fee is split in half between the treasury and DINERO stakers.
Additional signals from the source:
- Hidden Hand monetizes the demand side of governance influence rather than the voter side.
- The fee split links governance-incentive order flow back into the Dinero ecosystem.
5) Bribe Types
Source: https://learn.hiddenhand.finance/bribe-types
Selected excerpts from the official docs:
Range bribes are a new feature that will allow bribers to set a specific reward rate per vote, enabling better control over bribe spending and ensuring voters know their potential rewards beforehand.
Limit bribes, also known as fill or kill orders, enables bribers to set a maximum amount of tokens per vote, allowing partial fills and refunds if the deposited bribes aren’t fully utilized.
Additional signals from the source:
- Hidden Hand is productizing governance incentives into clearer price-per-vote instruments.
- Range and limit bribes make the market look more like order-entry infrastructure than a simple bribe bulletin board.
Notes
- Hidden Hand appears best cataloged as governance-incentive marketplace / delegated vote-routing layer / bribe marketplace.
- The strongest sources were the overview, mechanics, delegation, fee, and bribe-types pages.
- No standalone whitepaper or litepaper surfaced in this pass.